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(Bloomberg) -- Air passengers should be made aware of the health risks of airport body screenings and governments must explain any decision to expose the public to higher levels of cancer-causing radiation, an inter-agency report said. Pregnant women and children should not be subject to...

New York City officials say a renewed search this year of debris in and around the World Trade Center site has recovered 72 human remains. The sifting of more than 800 cubic yards (612 cubic meters) of debris recovered from ground zero and underneath roads around the lower Manhattan site...

Good timing or what? May 23, 2010 That massive oil spill in the Gulf has made a lot of enemies for BP, and it's also created a real public relations problem for some of the good causes that the company has supported over the years. One of them is the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach...

How About Keeping The Rest Of Us Safe From Israel? I wouldn't mind ads like this IF they were true. There is nothing that pisses me off more than being lied to. YouTube - Keep Israel Safe

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Much ado about Wenlock & Mandeville: Canada pokes fun at 2012 mascots It doesn't do to upset the Canadians – and with an axe to grind they are going after London's Olympic double act The Canadian press have warned children to stay away from images of London 2012 mascots Wenlock, left, and...

Brzezinski explained that global political leadership had become “much more diversified unlike what it was until relatively recently,” noting the rise of China as a geopolitical power, and that global leadership in the context of the G20 was “lacking internal unity with many of its members in...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Mexican President Felipe Calderon urged on Thursday to reinstate a ban on assault weapons to help cut cross-border gun smuggling and reduce drug gang violence for its southern neighbor. In a speech to a joint session of Congress, Calderon described efforts to fight...

Carrier Strike Group 10, headed by the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier, sails out of the US Navy base at Norfolk, Virginia Friday, May 21. On arrival, it will raise the number of US carriers off Iranian shores to two. Up until now, President Barack Obama kept just one aircraft carrier...

Col. Geoff Parker, 42, born and raised in Oakville, became the 145th soldier to die since the mission began in 2002 and the seventh this year. He leaves a wife and two young children – and by the accounts of his many peers in Kandahar – a career of limitless potential. Parker was among at...

The sirens have been non-stop this AM. It's good to know the kid's are getting their food and clothes. Is Molsons giving away T-shirts again?

Why do we tolerate a tax system that penalizes working? Would you be willing to pay a 25% GST type consumption tax if income tax were eliminated? At first thought it sounds harsh to pay but keep in mind producer and import taxes would plummet and so would retail goods thus having little...

Sarah Palin may have bagged a fat paycheck for her soon-to-be-released memoir, but American lecture buyers think she is an “idiot”. Although, Palin has entered into a deal with the Washington Speakers Bureau, which also represents high profile speakers including George W. Bush, Laura Bush...

Bye bye democracy! Canada's economy is now in the hands of a vaguely defined "international governing body" that not one of us has voted for. Aren't you glad this was debated in Parliament?

A former top legal adviser to the British government told an inquiry examining Britain's role in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq that he believed it was illegal under international law. Michael Wood, who was the chief legal adviser to the Foreign Office at the time of the 2003 invasion, told the...

Are you Rapture Ready? If you aren't then perhaps it's time to consider it. It's all hogwash right? History tends to gives us of good indicators of what happens when very large amounts of people have strong beliefs whether right or wrong beliefs. If you believe it are you ready...

So This Is Christmas? Why oh why must we all be tortured by the off key caterwauling of Yoko Ono every Christmas? Are no audio engineers capable of removing Yoko from the track?

Was this a democratic decision made by the people of Iraq? Does this mean the Shell & Lukoil will pay enough royalties to return Iraq to high level of social infrastructure with the best medical and education system in the Mid East that made many western nations look pathetic in comparison...

.....Right Beside the Mashed Potatoes. Any hunters around here? Any success this season? Type of weapon? There is lots of talk of gun control etc but no thread for those who actually shoot their weapon.

What defines a cult? What defines Chrisianity? Where do you draw the line? Check thses people out and then answer those three questions. 1,050 reprobates have split hell wide open since you loaded this web page. (4 mins before copying) Since 1955, Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) has taken...